From GQ: Let God love Gene Robinson

The July issue of GQ includes a lengthy profile of Bishop Gene Robinson by Andrew Corsello, which beings as follows:

Even before he could speak, he knew it and felt it: knew he would never be separated from it; felt it in the form of light and heat. actually, light and heat belittled what he felt. They were just words, and words were small, man’s way of knowing; words could point and suggest, but never apprehend. When he was old enough to search for better ways to convey what he felt when the love of God came upon him, he would tell his mother and father and minister and anyone else in Nicholasville, Kentucky, that it was like butter, liquid-warm, luminous, drizzled atop his head and descending over and through him in a seamless golden coat to his feet.

and continues here.

Posted by Jim Naughton on June 19, 2008 1:53 PM | |
Comments (1)

This is a superb story. I have Bishop Robinson's book, but haven't read it yet; I assume it covers a lot of the same ground.

Somebody needs to get into +Rowan's face, hand him this story, and tell him, "Don't show up at Lambeth until you have read this."

(It should be required reading for all the bishops at Lambeth, but it wouldn't do any good -- those who need to read it would refuse to do so.)

Bill Moorhead

Posted by Bill Moorhead [TypeKey Profile Page] | June 20, 2008 11:08 AM

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